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Thomas Eaton

The Weekend quiz

red boxing gloves on white background
Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images


The questions

1 What, according to Robert Frost, “made all the difference”?
2 Who met on 6 July 1957 at the garden fete of St Peter’s Church, Woolton?
3 Operation Stack is enacted on which road?
4 The circumstellar habitable zone has what nickname?
5 Who described himself as the “last Englishman to rule India”?
6 What takes place at a honbasho?
7 Who was run over by Katherine Wentworth and resurrected in the shower?
8 Which undefeated world champion boxer is nicknamed Triple G?
What links:
9 Monotreme; marsupial; placental?
10 Honiton; Bucks Point; Bedfordshire; Downton; Hollie Point?
11 Dr Lorrimer (PD James); Willy Loman (Arthur Miller); himself (Seamus Heaney)?
12 Prestatyn and Sedbury Cliffs, near Chepstow?
13 Scottish (3rd); Italian (4th); Reformation (5th)?
14 Henry Cooper; Nigel Mansell; Damon Hill?
15 Ektorp; Kivik; Hemnes; Billy; Malm?

Nigel Mansell
Have you worked out what links Nigel Mansell with Henry Cooper? Photograph: Pascal Rondeau/Getty Images

The answers

1 Taking “the one less traveled by” (The Road Not Taken poem).
2 Lennon and McCartney.
3 M20.
4 Goldilocks zone.
5 Jawaharlal Nehru.
6 Sumo wrestling.
7 Bobby Ewing (Dallas).
8 Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin.
9 Types of mammal.
10 Types of British lace.
11 Death Of: An Expert Witness novel; A Salesman play; A Naturalist poem.
12 Offa’s Dyke footpath.
13 Mendelssohn symphonies.
14 Won BBC Sports Personality of the Year twice.
15 Ikea ranges.

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